Nov 5, 2018 · Higher level documentation Finally there is what to do about system level and architectural documentation. Many would advocate writing such documentation in a wiki or …

Everything is documentation, code is documentation, Comments usualy have no [additional] information, or are wrong. Document the intention the what (code contracts can help with this), …

Back in the uni I wrote cryptic pieces of code simply due to using strange and funny names for all code entities, according to my whim. Until my teacher threw back one of my assignments, …

Sep 5, 2023 · Documentation should be on a higher level, explaining the things that are less obvious from the code itself, such as why a particular solution is preferred over another …

Then, documentation's purpose is to introduce the code to the new developer who doesn't know anything about the architecture of the existent codebase. It means that documentation is not …

Nov 7, 2023 · In your code, you may even throw an exception with an explanatory message when it is called with this sentinel value passed. 1: not to be confused with their usage in API …

Jun 4, 2015 · Documentation is more important than code, and documentation in code is called comments A good way to write programs is to start with deciding which modules (methods, …

Do you do this, and are there any rational reasons not to simply leave code undocumented if you aren't going to actually write the documentation yourself? No. The documentation generated …

In-code documentation (code comments) is not needed according to some developers when the code is self-documenting. For them, the presence of comments is, except in the rare cases, …

I am currently using two systems to write code documentation (am using C++): Documentation about methods and class members are added next to the code, using the Doxygen format. On …